Phony Benoni Member since Feb-10-06 · Last seen Jun-11-22 Greetings, O Seeker After Knowledge! You have arrived in Dearborn, Michigan (whether you like it or not), and are reading words of wisdom from a player rated 2938--plus or minus 1000 points. However, I've retired from serious play--not that I ever took playing chess all that seriously. You only have to look at my games to see that. These days I pursue the simple pleasures of finding games that are bizarre or just plain funny. I'd rather enjoy a game than analyze it. For the record, my name is David Moody. This probably means nothing to you unless you're a longtime player from Michigan, though it's possible that if you attended any US Opens from 1975-1999 we might have crossed paths. Lucky you. If you know me at all, you'll realize that most of my remarks are meant to be humorous. I do this deliberately, so that if my analysis stinks to High Heaven I can always say that I was just joking. As you can undoubtedly tell from my sparkling wit, I'm a librarian in my spare time. Even worse, I'm a cataloger, which means I keep log books for cattle. Also, I'm not one of those extroverts who sit at the Reference Desk and help you with research. Instead, I spend all day staring at a computer screen updating and maintaining information in the library's catalog. The general public thinks Reference Librarians are dull. Reference Librarians think Catalogers are dull. My greatest achievement in chess, other than tricking you into reading this, was probably mating with king, bishop and knight against king in a tournament game. I have to admit that this happened after an adjournment, and that I booked up like crazy before resuming. By the way, the fact I have had adjourned games shows you I've been around too long. My funniest moment occurred when I finally got a chance to pull off a smothered mate in actual play. You know, 1.Nf7+ Kg8 2.Nh6+ Kh8 3.Qg8+ Rxg8 4.Nf7#. When I played the climactic queen check my opponent looked at the board in shocked disbelief and said, "But that's not mate! I can take the queen!" Finally, I must confess that I once played a positional move, back around 1982. I'll try not to let that happen again.

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Jun-11-22 M Blau vs Keres, 1959    Phony Benoni: Not a good recommendation for the DERLD. Out of 59 moves, White makes only three in Black's half of the board. And two of those conist of 3.Bb5 and 6.Bxc6.      Jun-11-22 chessgames.com chessforum    Phony Benoni: Er, it's back. Karpov vs Timman, 1988      Jun-10-22 Orlo Milo Rolo   Phony Benoni: Marco!      Jun-10-22 Lilienthal vs Bondarevsky, 1947   Phony Benoni: Another one for you King Hunters. Black's monarch travels fron g8 to b8, then takes the Great Circle Route back to h3 before calling it a day.      Jun-10-22 GrahamClayton chessforum    Phony Benoni: <GrahamClayton> I've posted a question for you at L T Magee vs J Holland, 1948      Jun-10-22 L T Magee vs E L Holland, 1948    Phony Benoni: <GrahamClayton> The source you cite, <Chess Review, May 1948, p. 24>, gives Black's name as <E Holland> "Chess Life" (June 5, 1948, p. 1) has a table of results giving <E L Holland>. That form also appears in USCF rating supplements for a player fro ...      Jun-09-22 Biographer Bistro    Phony Benoni: SkinnVer Here Among the Fold?      Jun-09-22 Flohr vs Bondarevsky, 1947    Phony Benoni: Black's bishop makes me think of Godzilla emerging from the depths of the ocean to wreak havoc. However, in the end it's his Two Little Friends who steal the show. Well, maybe not so litt.      Jun-06-22 W Ritson-Morry vs G T Crown, 1947   Phony Benoni: it was the last round. Rison-Morry was mired in last place. These things happen.      Jun-06-22 W Adams vs M Kagan, 1947   Phony Benoni: Some more informztion. The game was published in <Chess Review>, March 1948, p. 23. Black's name is given as "M Kagan", and the location as "Massachusetts". There is no other game data, but I think we can now safely assume Black is <Milton Kagan>. Earlier in the ...

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 66 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-08-09    Jim Bartle: #3 is the only possiblity. With #1 or #2 the lettering would be backwards. Sure, you're right about the lineups. The NL had good players, and would be bolstered by Stan Musial the following year. But that AL team with DiMaggio and Williams batting 3 and 4 during maybe their best years, and Feller starting... Jul-08-09    Phony Benoni: Yeah, but look who the AL had to bring in to pitch. Eddie Smith? 13-17 that year, with more walks than strikeouts. My impression of the photo is that it's a shot of Williams' follow-through after swinging. Notice, for instance, that the left hand is on top. Jul-08-09    Jim Bartle: Ah, you're right. I looked at the hands the first time, got confused. It's a follow-through while warming up, and he's turned all the way around. By the way, I checked on the record of Jeff Heath, who hit between Williams and DiMaggio in the AL lineup. I'd barely heard of him, and certainly never knew he had such big years. Jul-08-09    Phony Benoni: I noticed Heath some time ago when searching for players with 20-20-20 in doubles-triples-home runs for a single year. He also had 18 steals and 199 hits in 1941, so he was just short of a really spectacular season. Jul-08-09    Jim Bartle: By chance I saw this photo of the McCovey statue at PacBell Park, with the same pose as in the Williams photo which confused me: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/objec... Jul-08-09    Phony Benoni: Never realized that McCovey has such a following in San Francisco. My out-of-town perception was that of the hulking giant who inspires respect, but not love. Jul-08-09    Jim Bartle: Oh, no. Just the opposite. Easily the most popular SF Giant of all. More than Mays, even. Plus he's still around, going to most games. Jul-08-09    Phony Benoni: <Game of the Day>: July 9, 1957 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... "Red Stuffing" Jul-09-09    Jim Bartle: Who were the players demoted? I think Wally Post was one, but I don't think he was the only one. Jul-09-09    Phony Benoni: Wally Post and Gus Bell were demoted in favor of Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Probably a justifiable decision. And not how several other Reds players were one AB and out. Jul-09-09    Phony Benoni: In looking at Retrosheet's player pages, I noticed occasional links to the SABR Biography Project: http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm... Just someting else to waste you time with. Jul-09-09    Phony Benoni: <Travis Bickle> Hey, you oughta send a few guys from City Hall over here. We're holding free seminars in ballot-box stuffing. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp... Jul-09-09    Phony Benoni: <Game of the Day>: July 10, 1934 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... "Wally Berger?" Jul-10-09    A.G. Argent: Ok, Travis, huge series this weekend. 4 games in 3 days goin' into the break. A bit more than maybe a bit of statement time for both teams and the division. Of course I'm reading far too much into it but I am, after all, Mr. hyperbole. Cheers, pal. Jul-10-09    Jim Bartle: Interesting article at cnnsi.com, where Bill James discusses the place of Pujols' first nine years in baseball history: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.... He finds only two players whose first nine years show the consistency and quality of Pujols': Paul Waner and Kid Nichols (from 19th century). James finds about 20 players who had equivalent nine-year stretches at some point in their careers. Jul-10-09    Jim Bartle: On that retrosheet, I looked at the AL lineup and thought "Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons, Cronin, they must have crushed the ball." Then I saw Hubbell as NL's starter, and realized they all struck out. Jul-10-09    Phony Benoni: I found it interesting that every starter on both teams, except Wally Berger, is a Hall-of-Famer. And quite a few of the reserves, too. Jul-10-09    playground player: <Phony Benoni> Hey, Wally Berger did some serious hitting in the 1930s! If he'd kept it up, he would've made the Hall of Fame. Jul-10-09    Jim Bartle: That's quite something, which I hadn't noticed: All HOFers. Jul-10-09    Jim Bartle: Hey, the 1962 Mets, cradle of managers! http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/... Zimmer gets a little air, but look at Roger Craig! Humm baby! The original Mets had a pretty good-looking lineup: OF: Frank Thomas, Richie Ashburn, Gus Bell IF: Gil Hodges, Felix Mantilla, Charlie Neal, Don Zimmer C: Hobie Landrith That's a winning team...in 1956. Jul-10-09    Dredge Rivers: <Jim Bartle> Actually, the Mets could have been a winning team in <1976>, except they gave up Nolan Ryan, Amos Otis, and Ken Singleton. Plus, they failed to draft Reggie Jackson. Now that's a record for incompetence that even George W. Bush would be proud of! :) Jul-10-09    Jim Bartle: Appropriate way to end a terrible season (Mets' 8th): http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... What I've read is it was a popup to short right that Hubbs got to with a long run. Jul-10-09    Phony Benoni: I've read that Joe Pignatano remains the only player to end his career by hitting into a triple play. What I hadn't realized was it was also the final game for both runners, Ashburn and Sammy Drake. Jul-10-09    Jim Bartle: Don't know anything about Drake, but yes, Ashburn says it was fun with the Mets for one year, but he couldn't go through it again. Must have been a pretty good catch by Hubbs, as Ashburn wasn't the type of player to mess up on the bases. At the Mets final game at the Polo Grounds that year, they had a big ceremony for the closing of the stadium, and they gave home plate to Casey Stengel. Then they had to play there again in 63 as Shea wasn't ready yet. Jul-11-09    playground player: <Dredge Rivers> You wouldn't be Keith Olbermann here incognito, would you? If not, get a life. By the time the current cowbird in the White House gets finished trashing this country, GWB will look like Solon. Historical note: Casey Stengel not only received home plate for what was supposed to be the last game at the Polo Grounds. He also hit the first World Series home run at Yankee Stadium, an inside-the-parker. Yes, <Jim Bartle>, he was playing center field for the Giants. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 66 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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